The death and life of the great American school system. How testing and choice are undermining education.

Autor/in	Ravitch, Diane
Titel	The death and life of the great American school system. How testing and choice are undermining education. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Leben und Tod des großen amerikanischen Schulsystems. Wie Tests und Wahlmöglichkeiten das Bildungswesen unterminieren.
Quelle	New York: Basic Books (2010), 283 S.Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Literatur- und URL-Angaben S. 243-271
Zusatzinformation	Inhaltsverzeichnis
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
ISBN	978-0-465-01491-0
Schlagwörter	Bildung; Bildungschance; Soziale Ungleichheit; Bildungsstandards; Bildungssystem; Bildungspolitik; Bildungsreform; Schulpolitik; Schulreform; Schule; Schulsystem; Schulwahl; Öffentliche Schule; Schulbezirk; Privatschule; Charter School; Lehrer; Leistungsbeurteilung; Schulleistung; Curriculum; Stadt; Staatlicher Sektor; Einkommen; Finanzierung; Privatisierung; Fallbeispiel; Leistungsmessung; Rechenschaftslegung; USA
Abstract	"The author examines her career in education reform and repudiates positions that she once staunchly advocated. Drawing on over forty years of research and experience, she critiques today's most popular ideas for restructuring schools, including privatization, standardized testing, punitive accountability, and the feckless multiplication of charter schools. She shows conclusively why the business model is not an appropriate way to improve schools. Using examples from major cities like New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Denver, and San Diego, the author makes the case that public education today is in peril. She includes clear prescriptions for improving America's schools: leave decisions about schools to educators, not politicians or businessmen; devise a truly national curriculum that sets out what children in every grade should be learning; expect charter schools to educate the kids who need help the most, not to compete with public schools; pay teachers a fair wage for their work, not 'merit pay' based on deeply flawed and unreliable test scores encourage family involvement in education from an early age." Forschungsmethode: deskriptive Studie; anwendungsorientiert. (author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2010/4